We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"Content Filtering and sandboxing are valuable features."
"It is a brilliant product. It is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) system. It has got about 11 security services that take care of your perimeter security. It takes care of any kind of cyber threats that could come in. It takes care of creating VPNs between two SonicWalls instantly and very easily. It has got spyware in it as well as a firewall. It has also got a gateway antivirus and an application firewall that can block things from outside."
"I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides."
"The solution has reduced cyberattacks."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to drop packets."
"One on the main benefits is protection all time from anywhere."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Overall, we're very happy with our product."
"We use ZIA for outbound internet connectivity. The internet traffic of on-prem users will be directed to the ZIA cloud for security checks and web filtering."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The problem primarily with SonicWall is it's a Unix box. And it's all software, all the activities, blocking, censoring, everything has to happen in the software. If you start hitting the box with a lot of sessions it slows down and that's not what I expect from a firewall."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"SonicWall needs to work on SD-WAN."
"A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"The main issue with Zscaler Internet Access is proxy IP detection, which sometimes makes sites inaccessible."
"The solution is expensive. They recently revised the pricing and packaging. Some of our existing customers have been asking for alternate solutions for a lower price."
"I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"Zscaler Internet Access's troubleshooting is very limited, and their textbook logs need to be more informative."
"When you have appliances, SSL inspection is always a headache due to poor performance and/or lack of ciphers implemented. "
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
"There are a few features that are not compatible with the Azure cloud."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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